Myanmar members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) hold hands as they stand beside a portrait of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi during a series of events held to mark her 64th birthday, at the NLD headquarters in Yangon on June 19, 2009. Around 300 supporters at the building offered food to Buddhist monks at dawn, and later released doves and balloons into the air in a symbol of freedom before sharing a birthday cake, witnesses said, as Aung San Suu Kyi marked her birthday in prison, while activists took to the Internet and planned worldwide protests to press the ruling military junta to free her. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

Myanmar members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) hold hands as they stand beside a portrait of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi during a series of events held to mark her 64th birthday, at the NLD headquarters in Yangon on June 19, 2009. Around 300 supporters at the building offered food to Buddhist monks at dawn, and later released doves and balloons into the air in a symbol of freedom before sharing a birthday cake, witnesses said, as Aung San Suu Kyi marked her birthday in prison, while activists took to the Internet and planned worldwide protests to press the ruling military junta to free her.

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